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Meredithe – wow! Does that mean 17 pairs coming up for 2017? Or, may be 17 Beanies? Well done. They are fantastic. I called in to Gisborne last week and spied that sock yarn. Very tempted, but still so much stitching to do. We have been bush camped in Vic gold fields for 5 days with two grandkids (demanding) so not a stitch for all of that time. I am having withdrawals.

I don’t think all together in my whole life I have had 16 pairs of socks! Much less gorgeous ones like you knit! Amazing. I am barefoot almost always at home and have been known to run outside really fast in the snow barefoot to get the mail.

I love hand knitted socks. It’s like giving your feet a massage. A friend and I took a sock making class together several years ago. She’s a knitter but I’m not. It was a toe up class and I loved it! It’s going to be summer soon so maybe you could make a few tennis socks. It would take less yarn and you’d get two for your stitching time.

I love looking at the socks you have made, great colours and as a non sock maker I am intruiged by the magic trick of matching stripes. Now there is another puzzle for me to solve – “frogging”! Somewhere in the back if my head I associate it with Shakesperian era doublet and hose. Was it the fancy way the doublets were fastened? Now I will have to Google “frogging” to find out!

I hope you love knitting toe up. What is wonderful is when you are done, you are pretty done. I knit two at a time toe up socks because I second sock syndrome and this worked out well for me.
Good luck on the 16, sounds like a good challenge.

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